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Albert Camus

Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction— Oliver Gloag
The Fall— Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus— Albert Camus
The Plague— Albert Camus
The Rebel— Albert Camus
The Stranger— Albert Camus

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World— Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited— Aldous Huxley
The Art of Seeing— Aldous Huxley
The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment— Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception— Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy— Aldous Huxley

Leo Tolstoy

A Confession— Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master and Man— Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom of Leo Tolstoy— Leo Tolstoy

George Orwell

Animal Farm & 1984— George Orwell
Essays— George Orwell
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984— Dorian Lynskey

David Graeber

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory— David Graeber
Pirate Enlightenment, or The Real Libertalia— David Graeber
The Dawn of Everything— David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World— David Graeber

Gabor Maté

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts— Gabor Maté
Scattered Minds— Gabor Maté
The Myth of Normal— Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté

Philosophy & Existentialism

A Brief History of 20th Century Western Philosophy— Garrett Thomson
A Passion for Ignorance— Renata Salecl
A Short History of Decay— E.M. Cioran
At the Existentialist Café— Sarah Bakewell
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction— Thomas Flynn
Fear and Trembling— Søren Kierkegaard
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates— Thomas Cathcart
How to Think Like a Philosopher— Peter Cave
Irrational Man— William Barrett
Just the Arguments— Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone
Minima Moralia— Theodor Adorno
Mind and Cosmos— Thomas Nagel
Nihilism— Nolen Gertz
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life— Robert C. Solomon
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life— Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard— Clare Carlisle
Philosophical Tales— Martin Cohen
Philosophy and Real Politics— Raymond Geuss
Playing and Reality— D.W. Winnicott
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy— David Chalmers
Sartre in 90 Minutes— Paul Strathern
Spinoza, Atheist— Steven Nadler
The Agony of Eros— Byung-Chul Han
The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence— Robert Pantano
The Art of Living an Absurd Existence— Robert Pantano
The Burnout Society— Byung-Chul Han
The Complete Essays of Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne
The Concept of Anxiety— Søren Kierkegaard
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic— Jean-Manuel Roubineau
The Denial of Death— Ernest Becker
The Ethics of Ambiguity— Simone de Beauvoir
The Existentialist's Survival Guide— Gordon Marino
The Human Predicament— David Benatar
The Scent of Time— Byung-Chul Han
The Socratic Method— Ward Farnsworth
The Temptation to Exist— E.M. Cioran
The Visionaries— Wolfram Eilenberger
What Am I Doing with My Life— Stephen Law
What Does It All Mean— Thomas Nagel
Who Is Conscious?— Marian Stamp Dawkins

Political & Social Theory

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity— Paul Kingsnorth
Anarchy & the Philosophy of Anarchism— Kropotkin & Goldman
Anarchy, State, and Utopia— Robert Nozick
Antifascist Dad— Matthew Remski
Capitalist Realism— Mark Fisher
Elite Capture— Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Feminism Against Progress— Mary Harrington
Freedom— Slavoj Žižek
How Propaganda Works— Jason Stanley
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life— Jonathan Sperber
On Western Terrorism— Noam Chomsky & Andre Vltchek
Pedagogy of Hope— Paulo Freire
Postcapitalist Desire— Mark Fisher
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power— Byung-Chul Han
Selections from the Prison Notebooks— Antonio Gramsci
Society of the Spectacle— Guy Debord
Surviving the 21st Century— Julian Cribb
The Communist Manifesto— Marx & Engels, intro. Varoufakis
The DIM Hypothesis— Leonard Peikoff
The Eye of the Master— Matteo Pasquinelli
The Origins of Totalitarianism— Hannah Arendt
The Philosophy of Misery— P.J. Proudhon
The Soul of Man Under Socialism— Oscar Wilde
Zionism: An Emotional State— Derek Penslar

Neurodiversity & Mental Health

AuDHD— Leanne Maskell
Burnout Recovery: A Neurodivergent-Friendly Guide— Alicia K. Anderson
Empire of Normality— Robert Chapman
Explaining AuDHD— Dr. Khurram Sadiq
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder— Sarah Kurchak
It's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies)— ed. Scarlett Curtis
NeuroTribes— Steve Silberman
Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods— Mariana Alessandri
Read This When Things Fall Apart— Kelly Hayes
Self-Care for Autistic People— Megan Anna Neff
The Canary Code— Ludmila N. Praslova
The Grieving Brain— Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Reason I Jump— Naoki Higashida
Unlearning Ableism— Jamie Shields & Celia Chartres-Aris
You Are Not a Rock— Mark Freeman

Addiction & Psychology

Addiction— Suzette Glasner
A History of Loneliness— Fay Bound Alberti
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion— Şeyda Kurt
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason— Justin Smith-Ruiu
Love: A History— Simon May
Never Enough— Judith Grisel
On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality— Justin Smith-Ruiu
The Biology of Desire— Marc Lewis
The Power of Cute— Simon May
Unbroken Brain— Maia Szalavitz
What Is It Like to Be an Addict— Owen Flanagan
What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change— Emily Falk
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?— Hanna Pickard & Marco Venniro

Nature, Science & Environment

A Book of Noises— Caspar Henderson
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness— Michael Pollan
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature— Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
How Flowers Made Our World— David George Haskell
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi— Balakrishnan & Wasowski
Human Nature— Kate Marvel
Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction— Natalie Kyriacou
Pathless Forest— Chris Thorogood
The Certainty Illusion: What You Don't Know and Why It Matters— Timothy Caulfield
The Evolving Brain— Paul Goldsmith
The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine— Sophie Strand
The Information— James Gleick
The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul— Jay Lombard
The Nature of Plants— Craig N. Huegel
The Shallows— Nicholas Carr
The Trees Are Speaking— Lynda V. Mapes
These Wilds Beyond Our Fences— Bayo Akomolafe
Things in Nature Merely Grow— Yiyun Li
Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones— Jackie Morris
Wolfish— Erica Berry

Fiction & Short Stories

A Madman's Diary and Other Short Stories— Lu Xun
A Modest Proposal and Other Works— Jonathan Swift
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness— Francesca Albanese
Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
Hings— Chris McQueer
I Who Have Never Known Men— Jacqueline Harpman
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light— Kim Cho-yeop
In a Grove— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Johnny Got His Gun— Dalton Trumbo
Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century— Maïa Hruska
Lessons in Chemistry— Bonnie Garmus
Notes from Underground— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Short Stories About Mental Illness— anthology
Short Stories About Suicide— anthology
Stories of Your Life and Others— Ted Chiang
Stream System— Gerald Murnane
The Chekhov Collection— Anton Chekhov
The Time Traveler's Passport— anthology
Tree— Aya Koda
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop— Hwang Bo-reum

Biography & Memoir

A Historian in Gaza— Jean-Pierre Filiu
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts— Margaret Atwood
Che Guevara— Jon Lee Anderson
Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana— Michael Azerrad
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain— Charles R. Cross
How to Stop Time— Matt Haig
Not Quite White in the Head— Melissa Lucashenko
Now Comes Good Sailing— ed. Andrew Blauner
Roger Fry: A Biography— Virginia Woolf
Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain— Danny Goldberg
The Outrun— Amy Liptrot
This Ragged Grace— Octavia Bright
This Thug's Life— Mopreme Shakur

Art, Writing & Culture

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain— George Saunders
Art and Faith— Makoto Fujimura
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Heal— Daisy Fancourt
Essays— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books— Hwang Bo-reum
Nonconformity— Nelson Algren
Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style— Vonnegut & McConnell
Sensemaking— Christian Madsbjerg
Sound Affects— Julian Treasure
Styles of Radical Will— Susan Sontag
The Reading Mind— Daniel Willingham
The Right to Oblivion— Lowry Pressly
Write No Matter What— Joli Jensen

Spirituality & Religion

Awaiting God— Simone Weil
Beyond Belief— Nir Eyal
Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind— Osho
Simone Weil: A Life in Letters— Simone Weil
The Problem of Pain— C.S. Lewis
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us— Cole Arthur Riley
This Life— Martin Hägglund

History & Classical

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil— Hannah Arendt
The Principal Speeches of Demosthenes— Demosthenes
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography— Stephen Knight
The Science of Racism— Deon West

Ethics & Practical Philosophy

Ethics in the Real World— Peter Singer
How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude— Pablo of Texcoco, trans. Karttunen & Townsend
How to Care About Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small— Porphyry & others, ed. Jeremy Mynott
How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions— Seneca, trans. Margaret Graver
How to Listen: An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others— Plutarch, trans. Frank Holt
Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within— Lewis Raven Wallace
The Most Good You Can Do— Peter Singer

Uncategorized

Home is Here
In Emergency, Break Glass— Nate Anderson
Lean on Me— Lynne Segal
Light and Thread— Han Kang
The Wild Dark— Craig Childs
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny— Cliff Sosis
Traversal— Maria Popova